Mental Illness and Compulsory Treatment

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 443-448

  McMillan, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipsychiatry and suicide; Compulsory treatment and justified paternalism; Mental health legislation; Mental illness and compulsory treatment; Mental illness myth

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349178770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch60     Document Type: Chapter

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